Alcohol use and alcohol-related problems, including accidents, vandalism and violence, at sporting events are of increased concern in Sweden and other countries. The relationship between alcohol use and violence has been established and can be explained by the level of intoxication. Given the occurrence of alcohol use and alcohol-related problems at sporting events, research has assessed intoxi...

In this paper, we proposed a classification method of spectators’ state in video sequences by voting of facial expressions and face directions. The task of this paper is to classify the state of the spectators in a given video sequence into “Positive Scene” or “Negative Scene”, and “Watching Seriously” or “Not Watching Seriously”. The proposed classifier is designed by a “bag-of-visual-words” a...

INTRODUCTION International mass gatherings can cause great challenges to local healthcare system and emergency medical services (EMS). Traditionally, planning has been based on retrospective reports of previous events, but there still is a need for prospective studies in order to make the process more evidence-based. The aim of this study was to analyze the success of medical preparedness, ambu...

We present observations from two separate studies of spectators’ perceptions of musical performances, one involving two acoustic instruments, the other two electronic instruments. Both studies followed the same qualitative method, using structured interviews to ascertain and compare spectators’ experiences. In this paper, we focus on outcomes pertaining to perceptions of the performers’ skill, ...

Previous studies have paid little attention to spectators’ consumption behaviors and motives for watching different types of esports live-streaming game genres. This study, therefore, investigates spectator based on the interaction effects Convenience sampling was conducted collect 312 responses from Taiwanese individuals via Professional Technology Temple. The measurement tools include motivat...

Music is an integral part of dance. Over the last 10 years, however, dance stimuli (without music) have been repeatedly used to study action observation processes, increasing our understanding of the influence of observer's physical abilities on action perception. Moreover, beyond trained skills and empathy traits, very little has been investigated on how other observer or spectators' propertie...

Digital games can be used not only for fun and entertainment. The term ‘serious games’ denotes digital games serving serious purposes like education, training, advertising, research, and health. In the contribution the chances and challenges of serious games for computer science in sport will be discussed. Serious games, particularly adventure and shooter games, already play an important role i...